HIST 1001 : History Exam 2 Copy
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Thrace: discovery of new civilizations, homer and schliemann, minoan civilization, mycenaean civilization. Archaic age, 750-550 bc: characteristics, poets and pre-socrates. Mycenaean civilization: began in 1500 bc, high period 1400-1200 bc, a greek-speaking people, throughout aegean, small, walled cities, warfare, militaristic society, burials with weapons, trade in wine and olive oil, use of linear b, ended by 1100 bc. Time of turmoil: 1200-1000 bc, dorians, sea people . Pre-socratics of archaic greece: the thinkers that came before the great socrates, thales of miletus, 624-548 bc, all is water saw the world surrounded by water. The sun was a window into the realm of fire. Birth of polis: athens- birth of democracy, boule- town council, peisistratus, hippias, cleisthenes, ostracism. Local government which is unlike any other place we"ve talked about: roads, satrapies and subject people, zoroastrianism- wise man thinker, founded by zarathustra or zoroaster, teaches the world is controlled by 2 antagonistic principles:
